In English – for my non-technical readers – that means that you won’t notice a change in using the computer.

Convention over Configuration means that programmers get to do less work behind the scenes. This particular post was inspired by a recent Web Camp at Microsoft. “Convention over configuration” — direct from the lips of Rachel Appel — isn’t unique to Microsoft, but they worked it into the .NET framework in some kind of cool, geeky way.

In this case, names and locations of standardized files and folders have a convention. Rather than writing the equivalent of a new map for every time you need to create an application, you have an existing map that you re-use behind the scenes. Additionally, the painful process of telling the computer where everything is has been streamlined behind the scenes. [7] This resulted in the crazy ability to write some lines of code and have a computer create a database for you.